[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Facebook is pumping $300 million into the media. And that’s after the Google News Initiative shoved $300 million into fighting “fake news” and helping struggling media outlets like the New York Times.

These aren’t investments. They’re charitable donations by Big Data to Big Brother.

The First Amendment doesn’t make newspapers a public service, nor printers noblemen. The First Amendment assays to, in Mao’s words, “Let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend.”

The First Amendment famously assays to do so by forbidding the government to regulate speech or newspapers. Our unfortunate situation is that private entities have united to do exactly what the First Amendment forbade the government to do. Namely, to unify the expenditure of money for paper, ink, and transportation of information and opinion in an entity which has substantial sway over the agents of the government. It’s like the Russian joke: “Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is just the opposite."

The often-overlooked consideration is that government schools regulate speech and press in institutions which our most impressionable citizens are pressured or required to spend a very great deal of their time.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Ministry of Propaganda and the Ministry of Education are linked in their adherence to the goals of the agenda.
The populace that does not make a conscious effort to find the truth is shrinking.
They don’t care how much it costs them.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I got that backwards, the populace that seeks the truth is shrinking, those who imbibe the message unquestioningly is growing.